Strange #3

Sue Prentis finds a haunting portrait of a girl who could be her double at an antique shop and brings it home to her apartment, but soon discovers the painting is far more sinister than she bargained for. As the mysterious figure in the canvas draws her in with hypnotic eyes and impossible demands, Sue finds herself trapped in a terrifying battle for control of her own life. This eerie tale from 1957 explores the dark price of desire when greed meets the supernatural.

In 1914, Colonel Ian Bowes-Clidden is called away from his scholarly work and his wife Pamela to serve with the British Army in the trenches of Flanders. After a year of brutal combat, his battalion faces an overwhelming German assault shrouded in poisonous gas—until ghostly bowmen from England's medieval past materialize to turn the tide of battle. Caught between the impossible and the undeniable, Bowes-Clidden must grapple with a supernatural intervention that defies reason, even as military brass demand he bury the truth.

In "The Unwelcome Passenger!", a cursed albatross becomes the only hope for a desperate crew stranded in the Sargasso Sea—its presence both a torment and a mystery, as the bird’s strange behavior may be guiding them toward salvation… or something far worse.